Affiliated media: Borus, Telegram channel

Incident date: October 27, 2021

Attack type:

• Cyber-, DDoS, and hacker attack on a media outlet

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Planerka Telegram channel

Location: Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Krasnoyarsk

Additional information:

"Borus", one of the largest information Telegram channels in Siberia, was attacked by spam bots at the same time as the TVK television company. Thousands of fake users began to subscribe to both pages, who linked the attack to publications related to attacks by Herbalife employees on a TVK film crew. Borus editor-in-chief Viktor Samusenko, like his colleagues from TVK, refused to delete the content at the request of Herbalife representatives.